Australia is significantly expanding testing for COVID-19 across the country in order to stay on top of the virus and provide a path to re-open large portions of public life.Key points:Australia is ramping-up its COVID-19 testing capabilityThere are moves for more rapid blood testing to supplement swab testsThe ABC has found not all diagnostic tests…
Faf du Plessis (Gallo) Despite reliable data pointing to a sizeable increase in South Africans’ consumption of news during the Covid-19 pandemic, Faf du Plessis is one of those shying away from the generally gloomy daily coverage on the crisis.”Sportsmen are no different to anyone else. We go through the whole range of emotions,” the…
Careem, the Dubai-based ride-hailing and delivery company that was acquired by Uber last year, is cutting its workforce by 31% and suspending its mass transportation business due to affects from the COVID-19 pandemic. The layoffs will affect more than 530 employees. Employees who are laid off will receive at least three months severance pay, one…
The economic effects of COVID-19 could delay Africa’s next big IPO — that of Nigerian fintech unicorn Interswitch. If so, it wouldn’t be the first time the Lagos-based payments company’s plans for going public were postponed; the tech world has been anticipating Interswitch’s stock market debut since 2016. For the continent’s innovation ecosystem, there’s a…
This bank holiday weekend should have been among the busiest of the year for Dublin Airport. If things had been normal, around 400,000 passengers would have passed through the terminals over the four days. But these aren’t normal times, thanks to Covid-19. Instead, the place is like a ghost town, with grounded planes littering the…
Updated / Monday, 4 May 2020 08:10 Social Justice Ireland says the basic Jobseekers Allowance is €81 below the poverty line Social Justice Ireland (SJI) is calling on the next Government to use the Covid-19 illness payment as a basis to reform the social welfare system. The Think Tank says the increase in the emergency payment…
The number of Covid-19 cases has risen by 447 to a total of 6 783. This is the first time the numbers have increased by more than 400 cases in a day.Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize announced the increase on Sunday night, adding that eight more people had died. Of these, two died in the Western…
Six more people have died of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, all at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax.Nova Scotia is reporting that a total of 37 people have died from the virus. (Robert Guertin/CBC)Six more people have died of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, all at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax. So far, 37 people…
MONTREAL — Quebec public health officials announced Sunday that a computer error resulted in 1,317 missing positive COVID-19 cases between April 2-30. The province also announced a daily increase of 892 new COVID-19 from Saturday, bringing the total number of infections in Quebec to 31,865. Sixty-nine people have died of the virus in the last…
Tatiana Bernardo de Nascimento, 27, holds out her hands so the young couple delivering meals at her door can spray them with sanitizing alcohol. There’s no soap and the taps often run dry in her home in Paraisópolis, a working-class community of more than 100,000 residents that constitutes one of the city’s many favelas, or…
